Giving a contract to the United Launch Alliance to look into upgrading the Atlas and Delta rockets for maned space flight constitutes a decision in my book. All the same, if Space X has a solution ready to go first I hope it means that NASA will use them instead.
Man-rated means that NASA has certified it's use it to launch people into space. Space X is developing the dragon module to launch crews and cargoes into space with the F9, but that doesn't make the rocket Man-rated. I think it's understandable that NASA has chosen the Atlas V over the Falcon 9, given that the Atlas V has been launched 19 times with a near-perfect success rate.
You mean Falcon 1. Right now Space X is working on the Falcon 9 for launch this year. They are working with much smaller $ amounts than these 5 companies, but they're not working on human launches either.
I agree that it would be need to see a man-rated version of the F9, but I think NASA wants to focus on rockets that are available now rather than rockets that aren't yet available.
Inability to enforce a remedy is as problematic as a remedy being ineffective (in a practical sense, the two are exactly the same, either way the problem is not getting solved). If people have been trying to solve a problem one way for decades, and it has come to nothing, do you want to say "lets just try harder" or is it better to say "maybe we should try something else". In my experience trying harder rarely accomplishes anything.
So many people are out there saying "no, it's not the victim's fault, don't blame the victim" but they miss the entire point. People have always tried to end bullying by punishing the bullies, but it has never been an effective way to solve the problem. If anything, it just makes the bully more likely to be abusive. This article is discussing why some are bullied and rejected while others aren't. And it goes to the heart of what can be done, which is teaching social skills. The punishment system doesn't work.
if you've got two parents on the gov't dole, paying the exact same as you, that's 20k
The money money I give them should cover that with $5,000 to spare. How is it reasonable to say that they need more? Where will it end if we keep giving them more? It most certainly is an addiction.
To put it simply, we import half the oil we consume. The oil drives our entire economy, so in order to maintain our current standard of living (and that includes all those entitlement programs) we have to maintain a strong international presence. So it is not like you can pick one, you need to do both for the whole scheme to work at all.
This situation is not agreeable to me at all, and I think we should dramatically cut back our defense spending. But I also know that that's going to mean scaling back my lifestyle and taking more personal responsibility for caring for the elderly and infirm. I am prepared to do that, but you need to understand that once the defense spending is gone, the government is no longer going to be able to afford these entitlement programs, no matter how much they raise taxes.
How about if we just do the last two. I already pay about $25,000 a year in taxes. My living expenses are only $10,000. What do they do with all that money I give them? I can hardly imagine that giving them even more would solve the problem, whatever it is. You shouldn't enable an addict.
I know! But from reading the article, it is not entirely clear that the Aries V has been canceled. What they are saying is that the Aries V wasn't scheduled to receive any funding until 2016, so this is not necessarily a shift away from developing that vehicle, but other heavy lift options will be considered as well and once they get to that point they will decide what to do. In the mean time the Aries I has definitely been canceled.
They looked at these at the start of the constellation program and concluded that the Aries V was the best option. If their goal is the most cost effective heavy-lift rocket, then they've already investigated it and reached a conclusion, and done considerable work towards developing it.
I don't think it makes sense to cancel that and re-investigate the alternatives and then start over from scratch. The new rocket is never going anywhere if we keep scrapping everything and starting over every couple years. Either they should scrap heavy lift and only use lighter rockets, or they should continue with the Aries V.
Why are they canceling the Aries V and then investigating new heavy lift rockets?! It makes no sense at all to cancel one program and then start another one to do exactly the same thing. Who made this decision? Are they retarded, or do they just hate the US Taxpayer / love throwing away $$$?
Don't forget the iPod: "No Wireless, less space than Nomad, Lame."
That was then, now they've sold over 250,000,000 iPods. I don't mean to beat a dead horse here, but you simply can not gauge how successful a brand new apple product is going to be by trying to compare it to existing products on the market.
I think your problem is that you are using PC prices. The iPad costs half as much as a Mac. So it's not paying more and getting less to us Mac users.
Also, you probably don't realize it now, but multi-touch is the future of the computer interface. 5 years from now, that netbook or whatever you bought instead will be a piece of dated junk, but people will still be carrying around iPads.
These laws were ill-conceived from the start. I have no idea how they planned to enforce them. Moreover, shortly before they (at least the one in CA, where I live) were enacted a study came out showing that people talking on a hands-free system were just as likely to cause an accident as people holding the phone in their hand. So they should have known from the start that the ban would be ineffective.
There is no reason to have a law that:
1) Can not be enforced; and
2) Would be ineffective even if you could enforce it.
All the legislators in California should be fired for gross incompetence.
Great, now that the bans have been proven ineffective our reasoning lawmakers will surely repeal the unnecessary bans on cell-phone use while driving, right? What? They won't?!
Let this be a lesson to everyone who has grand new ideas for how the government can interfere with our lives: Once something has been done, it is almost impossible to undo it.
I don't know about handwriting recognition. It's been established in the last decade that even a small, numeric keypad can enter text faster than handwriting it. The iPhone uses an on-screen keyboard which is even faster than T-9, and the keyboard on the iPad is even larger, so it's probably going to be even faster. I think handwriting recognition is probably dead.
I think 16-64GB will be enough for most users on the video front, but it sounds like it may not work for you. I doubt carrying around a bunch of SD cards is a good solution either. You may need to wait for a higher capacity device, or find something else, because I don't think this is a feature Apple will ever add to it. It's contrary to the concept of the device.
Apple is probably thinking that users will sync their documents over iTunes when they sync their music/contacts/photos/whatnot, so I'm not concerned about the lack of an SD slot, or the ability to transfer files to it that way (you can always email them, and I'm sure there will be some mobile-me functions for it too). They probably think that adding an SD slot would unnecessarily add complexity to the device. The lack of a stylus is an obvious deficiency, but I'd imagine there will be a 3rd party stylus available for it by the time it ships (we'll see).
You don't know any of the claims you just made about the A4 to be facts. You don't know it's not a multi-core chip. Even though it probably isn't you don't know that it's slower. Those are merely assumptions you've made. You don't know that it can't drive 1080p, you've assumed that. Apple has only made claims about what videos the device can play, and their claims are obviously based on the size of the screen built into the device.
I'm not saying that you're wrong, but you are saying these things like they're facts, when they are merely assumptions you've made. You ought to wait until you have more information about the processor and it's capabilities before you start jumping to conclusions. It's better to use words like "I think", or "probably" when you don't really know.
He doesn't know anything about the A4, so how could he possibly claim to know for a fact that it's slower? That doesn't make any sense. It's not a fact, it's speculation.
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Giving a contract to the United Launch Alliance to look into upgrading the Atlas and Delta rockets for maned space flight constitutes a decision in my book. All the same, if Space X has a solution ready to go first I hope it means that NASA will use them instead.
I don't think anybody's going to be buying up Boeing and Lockheed Martin anytime soon.
Man-rated means that NASA has certified it's use it to launch people into space. Space X is developing the dragon module to launch crews and cargoes into space with the F9, but that doesn't make the rocket Man-rated. I think it's understandable that NASA has chosen the Atlas V over the Falcon 9, given that the Atlas V has been launched 19 times with a near-perfect success rate.
You mean Falcon 1. Right now Space X is working on the Falcon 9 for launch this year. They are working with much smaller $ amounts than these 5 companies, but they're not working on human launches either.
I agree that it would be need to see a man-rated version of the F9, but I think NASA wants to focus on rockets that are available now rather than rockets that aren't yet available.
Maybe it's time to stop visiting Slashdot so much.
Inability to enforce a remedy is as problematic as a remedy being ineffective (in a practical sense, the two are exactly the same, either way the problem is not getting solved). If people have been trying to solve a problem one way for decades, and it has come to nothing, do you want to say "lets just try harder" or is it better to say "maybe we should try something else". In my experience trying harder rarely accomplishes anything.
So many people are out there saying "no, it's not the victim's fault, don't blame the victim" but they miss the entire point. People have always tried to end bullying by punishing the bullies, but it has never been an effective way to solve the problem. If anything, it just makes the bully more likely to be abusive. This article is discussing why some are bullied and rejected while others aren't. And it goes to the heart of what can be done, which is teaching social skills. The punishment system doesn't work.
I don't think elderly people even want to go to nursing homes. I'm planning to take my mother in once she is too old to live on her own.
The money money I give them should cover that with $5,000 to spare. How is it reasonable to say that they need more? Where will it end if we keep giving them more? It most certainly is an addiction.
To put it simply, we import half the oil we consume. The oil drives our entire economy, so in order to maintain our current standard of living (and that includes all those entitlement programs) we have to maintain a strong international presence. So it is not like you can pick one, you need to do both for the whole scheme to work at all.
This situation is not agreeable to me at all, and I think we should dramatically cut back our defense spending. But I also know that that's going to mean scaling back my lifestyle and taking more personal responsibility for caring for the elderly and infirm. I am prepared to do that, but you need to understand that once the defense spending is gone, the government is no longer going to be able to afford these entitlement programs, no matter how much they raise taxes.
How about if we just do the last two. I already pay about $25,000 a year in taxes. My living expenses are only $10,000. What do they do with all that money I give them? I can hardly imagine that giving them even more would solve the problem, whatever it is. You shouldn't enable an addict.
Note that the Toyota cars you are referring to did pass regulatory muster. . .
I know! But from reading the article, it is not entirely clear that the Aries V has been canceled. What they are saying is that the Aries V wasn't scheduled to receive any funding until 2016, so this is not necessarily a shift away from developing that vehicle, but other heavy lift options will be considered as well and once they get to that point they will decide what to do. In the mean time the Aries I has definitely been canceled.
I too share empathy for those rovers.
That joeydevilla.com comic you posted is so depressing.
I am depressed now.
They looked at these at the start of the constellation program and concluded that the Aries V was the best option. If their goal is the most cost effective heavy-lift rocket, then they've already investigated it and reached a conclusion, and done considerable work towards developing it.
I don't think it makes sense to cancel that and re-investigate the alternatives and then start over from scratch. The new rocket is never going anywhere if we keep scrapping everything and starting over every couple years. Either they should scrap heavy lift and only use lighter rockets, or they should continue with the Aries V.
Why are they canceling the Aries V and then investigating new heavy lift rockets?! It makes no sense at all to cancel one program and then start another one to do exactly the same thing. Who made this decision? Are they retarded, or do they just hate the US Taxpayer / love throwing away $$$?
Don't forget the iPod: "No Wireless, less space than Nomad, Lame."
That was then, now they've sold over 250,000,000 iPods. I don't mean to beat a dead horse here, but you simply can not gauge how successful a brand new apple product is going to be by trying to compare it to existing products on the market.
I think your problem is that you are using PC prices. The iPad costs half as much as a Mac. So it's not paying more and getting less to us Mac users.
Also, you probably don't realize it now, but multi-touch is the future of the computer interface. 5 years from now, that netbook or whatever you bought instead will be a piece of dated junk, but people will still be carrying around iPads.
These laws were ill-conceived from the start. I have no idea how they planned to enforce them. Moreover, shortly before they (at least the one in CA, where I live) were enacted a study came out showing that people talking on a hands-free system were just as likely to cause an accident as people holding the phone in their hand. So they should have known from the start that the ban would be ineffective.
There is no reason to have a law that:
1) Can not be enforced; and
2) Would be ineffective even if you could enforce it.
All the legislators in California should be fired for gross incompetence.
Great, now that the bans have been proven ineffective our reasoning lawmakers will surely repeal the unnecessary bans on cell-phone use while driving, right? What? They won't?!
Let this be a lesson to everyone who has grand new ideas for how the government can interfere with our lives: Once something has been done, it is almost impossible to undo it.
I don't know about handwriting recognition. It's been established in the last decade that even a small, numeric keypad can enter text faster than handwriting it. The iPhone uses an on-screen keyboard which is even faster than T-9, and the keyboard on the iPad is even larger, so it's probably going to be even faster. I think handwriting recognition is probably dead.
I think 16-64GB will be enough for most users on the video front, but it sounds like it may not work for you. I doubt carrying around a bunch of SD cards is a good solution either. You may need to wait for a higher capacity device, or find something else, because I don't think this is a feature Apple will ever add to it. It's contrary to the concept of the device.
Apple is probably thinking that users will sync their documents over iTunes when they sync their music/contacts/photos/whatnot, so I'm not concerned about the lack of an SD slot, or the ability to transfer files to it that way (you can always email them, and I'm sure there will be some mobile-me functions for it too). They probably think that adding an SD slot would unnecessarily add complexity to the device. The lack of a stylus is an obvious deficiency, but I'd imagine there will be a 3rd party stylus available for it by the time it ships (we'll see).
You don't know any of the claims you just made about the A4 to be facts. You don't know it's not a multi-core chip. Even though it probably isn't you don't know that it's slower. Those are merely assumptions you've made. You don't know that it can't drive 1080p, you've assumed that. Apple has only made claims about what videos the device can play, and their claims are obviously based on the size of the screen built into the device.
I'm not saying that you're wrong, but you are saying these things like they're facts, when they are merely assumptions you've made. You ought to wait until you have more information about the processor and it's capabilities before you start jumping to conclusions. It's better to use words like "I think", or "probably" when you don't really know.
He doesn't know anything about the A4, so how could he possibly claim to know for a fact that it's slower? That doesn't make any sense. It's not a fact, it's speculation.